'There is not much in the way of foreign display aircraft again at Waddington but then again we will get to see the Indian AF Su-30s & IL-78 even if its only a flypast as well as on the ground. Also the Sentinel, E-3D Sentry, and Nimrod recon. aircraft in formation, also the first display of the new Sentinel with a flypast with the Red Arrows and of course the new RAF Role Demo. What frequencies do you expect to be used at Waddington Airshow?'
Thanks Dave -btw I like the glider pic on your site, http://www.militaryairshows.co.uk/ I was an active PPL with the Leicester Aero Club for many years.
Getting back on subject, I'm not certain about show frequencies for this year, but here's a list of Waddington published frequencies and also the 'general' frequencies that are allocated for airshows only:
Waddington:
Approach: 250.85
DATIS: 291.675
Ground: 342.125
Radar (standby) 125.35
Radar (zone) 127.35 / 259.525
Departures: 308.625
Director: 378.5
Tower: 256.675
Airshow Allocations:
130.5
130.625
130.675
132.9
134.55
135.475
It's also worth including the NATO common frequencies on your scanner at an airshow too:
Tower: 122.1 / 257.8
Radar: 123.3 / 344.0 / 362.3 / 385.4
Hope this is useful!
Mark.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
Kinetic SBS-1
David has posted the following comment regarding the SBS-1:
'Re the SBS-1, just a small anecdote. I was looking at the demo on in M Lynch & Sons' place in Chertsey a while back and noticed it was even picking up aircraft taxi-ing at LHR. As I'd just come back from Moscow, I watched BA872 until it obviously took off and headed East.'
David. Egham.
Thanks for that David - that's one piece of equipment I am drooling over! Just haven't worked out the sales pitch to my wife yet as to how it will be £500 well spent!!
Interestingly there is a a new web-based product similar to the SBS-1. It's called the Airnav RadarBox - it appears to be about £100 cheaper and comes with 1 years free access but after that, you have to pay £120 a year to access the system via the web! over a few years that would work out considerably more expensive than just buying the SBS-1.
Btw I am considering attending Waddington airshow again this year but unfortunately it looks a rather 'weak' line up again, very little foreign air force participation. For a two day event, Waddington is becoming bit of a let-down, what do you think?
cheers for now, Mark.
'Re the SBS-1, just a small anecdote. I was looking at the demo on in M Lynch & Sons' place in Chertsey a while back and noticed it was even picking up aircraft taxi-ing at LHR. As I'd just come back from Moscow, I watched BA872 until it obviously took off and headed East.'
David. Egham.
Thanks for that David - that's one piece of equipment I am drooling over! Just haven't worked out the sales pitch to my wife yet as to how it will be £500 well spent!!
Interestingly there is a a new web-based product similar to the SBS-1. It's called the Airnav RadarBox - it appears to be about £100 cheaper and comes with 1 years free access but after that, you have to pay £120 a year to access the system via the web! over a few years that would work out considerably more expensive than just buying the SBS-1.
Btw I am considering attending Waddington airshow again this year but unfortunately it looks a rather 'weak' line up again, very little foreign air force participation. For a two day event, Waddington is becoming bit of a let-down, what do you think?
cheers for now, Mark.
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